Pathfinder 1E Good Halloween Adventure

[Crothian]

It is coming up on that time of year so what are people doing special for the holiday using Pathfinder? Any good Pathfinder modules that would make for a great horror session?

 

[Boggs]

Carrion Crown AP book one is a mystery through a haunted prison. That would be good. Not really a one shot if that's what you're looking for.

 

[Crothian]

I was looking for more one shot ideas or something I could bring into the current campaign as well as just hearing what other people might be doing. That is a great and spooky adventure that I would use but I really want to run that AP one day.

 

[Fooly_Cooly]

Well they have this lvl5 1 shot for free as an intro to the kaiden campaign setting. You can dl it here http://paizo.com/products/btpy8p2y?Frozen-Wind

 

[Stumblewyk]

In previous years, I've converted old AD&D 2e Ravenloft modules to Pathfinder and run them for my group as one-offs. My original idea was to take them through the 6 modules of the Grand Conjunction, 1 each Halloween, but gave up on that really quickly.

This year, I'm not even GM'ing. One of my players has graciously offered to run a horror-themed session of the Dresden Files RPG for us, so I'm looking forward to that immensely.

 

[gamerprinter]

Well they have this lvl5 1 shot for free as an intro to the kaiden campaign setting. You can dl it here http://paizo.com/products/btpy8p2y?Frozen-Wind

Stole my suggestion.

But to add to it. The one shot is designed for 5 each, 5th level characters. It runs about 3.5 hours, unless you spend more exploration time in the first act. It's divided into 3 time based acts, and works as kind of sandbox temple layout. It comes with 7 or 8 pregens to choose from, and using the pregens are a good idea as there are specific goals for each NPC provided in each NPC's background.

In the playtest, nobody was killed, but 2 characters were brought down below 0 hp - twice! And a third player started exclaiming "TPK, TPK!" the first time the two were knocked low.

Had I run this one-shot again, I would have given a rejuvination ability to the undead monks of the second act to notch up the terror level and possibly risk a TPK.

Since this was originally a convention demo game held at Origins, there is a score keeping chart to determine a "winner" among the players, but isn't necessary.

Among the pregens is a paladin, the only included "healer" (no clerics) and should be kept that way, even if you don't run the pregens, since this is very much a survival horror scenario. It might be diminished slightly if there are more healer types - so minimize that among the players.

Rite Publishing is working on another awesome horror one-shot that should be released in October, but it's for the patrons of the Kaidan Kickstarter, so it won't be released to the public for a while yet - probably sometime next year.

 

[Jester David]

I6 Ravenloft. Update and enjoy.

 

[MatthewJHanson]

If I can do a little self promotion, my company has a horror themed adventure called Good Little Children Never Grow Up that the fans seem to enjoy a lot.

The PCs have to save a group of children who are trapped within a haunted orphanage.

 

[Abciximab]

I ran Carrion Hill last year, went over quite well.

http://paizo.com/products/btpy8baj?Pathfinder-Module-Carrion-Hill

 

[Haladir]

You'd need to write a short backstory as to why the PCs were there, and write a different epilogue, but the "Misgivings" section of Pathfinder #2, "The Skinsaw Murders" is a great take on the "let's explore a haunted house" adventure.